L. Frank Baum Quotes

Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)

L. Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. (L Frank Baum Quotes)

“A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
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“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.”
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“And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
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“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other’s faults.”
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“But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”
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“Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”
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“How very wet this water is.”
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“I believe that dreams – day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing – are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.”
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“I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.”
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“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
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“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.”
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“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
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“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
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“If we walk far enough,” says Dorothy, “we shall sometime come to someplace.”
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“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”
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“I’ll miss you most of all scarecrow.”
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“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
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“It isn’t what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.”
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“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.”
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“Never give up… No one knows what’s going to happen next.”
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“Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.”
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“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
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“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
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“People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there’s no fun in it at all.”
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“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”
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“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think?”
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“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
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“Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.”
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“That proves you are unusual,’ returned the Scarecrow; ‘and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
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“There is no place like home.”
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“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason. When we waste time, we waste happiness.”
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“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…”
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“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”
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“You have plenty of courage, I am sure,” answered Oz. “All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
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